tell me the most ass over backward shit you do to keep your system chugging?
here’s mine:
sway struggles with my dual monitors, when my screen powers off and back on it causes sway to crash.
system service ‘switch-to-tty1.service’

[Unit]
Description=Switch to tty1 on resume
After=suspend.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

‘switch-to-tty1.service’ executes ‘/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh’ and send user to tty1

#!/bin/bash
# Switch to tty1
chvt 1

.bashrc login from tty1 then kicks user to tty2 and logs out tty1.

if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    chvt 2
    logout
fi

also tty2 is blocked from keyboard inputs (Alt+Ctrl+F2) so its a somewhat secure lock-screen which on sway lock-screen aren’t great.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
    134·
    3 months ago

    intel won’t allow its linux drivers to work above wifi 4 speeds in ap mode, so i created a kvm virtual windows machine with pci pass through on the wifi nic plus ip masquerade and now i’m getting wifi 6 speeds in ap mode.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        16·
        3 months ago

        it’s horrible in more ways that you would expect and what other solutions exist with intel wifi hardware in ap mode on linux?

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        19·
        3 months ago

        i wasn’t aware that you could use ndiswrapper on an access point; i’ll look into it.

        UPDATE: googles says that you can’t do this because ndiswrapper uses windows drivers that don’t support ap mode.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        5·
        3 months ago

        it’s a pita every time something goes wrong; it works well most of the time, but it also REALLY sucks sometimes.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      3 months ago

      Lots of laptops just use a removable m.2 wifi card. Have you considered replacing it with something thats properly supported? I know hardware costs money but not that much probably.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        12·
        3 months ago

        It’s not a laptop; it’s a mini desktop that I obtained to serve as a wifi router; storage server; firewall; VPN; media server; remote file storage; and my cat’s favorite warm napping surface.

        the wifi nic is embedded on the motherboard and it was chosen since it included a high gain antenna; among other qualities.

        Wifi works fine if you use it in ordinary client mode w full Linux support and the hardware is capable of fully supporting ap mode in older Linux kernels; it’s just that Intel decided remove higher speed ap mode support in the latest versions of the driver to force people to buy thier more expensive wifi nics.